Lotus Notes 6.5.4 & OS X 10.4 Tiger

I have switched from Windows2K to OS X for my personal desktop OS -- I'm running it on an older G4 but its more than enough for my lightweight web, email, and ssh usage.

Of course the first thing I installed on my new system after Firefox was Lotus Notes v6.5.4 which went smoothly and is working nicely. Yesterday I upgraded to OS X 10.4 Tiger and am happy to report that Notes 6.5.4 works perfectly though I did make a few changes.

Fist off, I had neglected to disable the Dynamic Config Client which has been a source of problems on Notes Mac for a while. The best way to disable it is in the "notes.ini file which doesn't really exist on the mac but you can use NiniX from Kissworks to edit what you would normally find in the notes.ini file on windows.

DisableDynConfigClient=1

I also used NiniX to up the font size as it was a wee bit small for me compared to what I'm used to on windows.

The next thing that needed fixing was the F9 mapping to Dashboard or whatever. I mapped the conflicting shortcut to Shift-F9 in System Preferences - Mouse & Keyboard - Keyboard Shortcuts and Notes' F9 refresh worked once again. After playing with it for a few minutes I decided that Dashboard was a silly waste of RAM and decided that is needed to go. I found the magic incantation here

Open Terminal, and then type this command, followed by the Return key:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

I also set Notes to use Firefox as the default browser in the Location doc. So far I'm really liking Notes on OS X and that was the last thing keeping me on Windows.